ICC in need of corporate mediator
Alan Isaac, the nomination for the ICC’s vice-presidency, has many skills but it is his experience as a corporate mediator that will be particularly necessary in his next role, writes Malcolm Conn in the Australian .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Alan Isaac, the nomination for the ICC’s vice-presidency, has many skills but it is his experience as a corporate mediator that will be particularly necessary in his next role, writes Malcolm Conn in the Australian.
The New Zealand Cricket chairman has a lifetime of sports administration and corporate governance behind him but his ability to step through the culturally and politically fraught minefield of a credibility-starved ICC will be paramount.
In the New Zealand Herald David Leggat writes Isaac’s challenge is to polish the ICC’s reputation.
He is conscious the image of the world body is not all it could be. "I'd like to think in four years' time the reputation of the ICC will be enhanced for a world governing body of a very significant sport," he said. "I don't believe it has a reputation as good as it could have."
Jonathan Millmow, writing in the Dominion Post, says the day after Isaac was given the nomination he was out watching club rugby.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo